Energy industries and utilities

A review of geophysical technologies, how they should be deployed and integrated for improved petroleum exploration and production.

The Civil Engineering department of Cochin University of Science and Technology organized an International Conference on Recent Advances in Civil Engineering (ICRACE) to disseminate the know-how and challenges in this area among technocrats, practicing civil engineers, researchers etc.

The uranium market is a particularly volatile and unpredictable international commodity market.

This book covers pharmaceutical residue dispersion in the aquatic environment and its toxic effect on living organisms.

This book makes an in-depth study of China's natural resource regulatory system including theoretical basis, development process, asset accounting, ownership reform, system structure, legal safeguard and policy implications.

The Routledge Handbook of Energy in Asia presents a comprehensive review of the unprecedented growth of Asian energy over the past quarter of a century.

Despite the mechanisms of reservoir sedimentation being well known for a long time, sustainable and preventive measures are rarely taken into consideration in the design of new reservoirs.

Managing climate variability and change remains a key development and food security issue in Bangladesh.

Emissions from energy use cause environmental and health damages and they also contribute to climate change.

Piping and valve engineers rely on common industrial standards for selecting and maintaining valves, but these standards are not specific to the subsea oil and gas industry.

Originally published in 1985.

Industrial transformation is a research and teaching field with a focus on the phenomenon and mechanisms of industrial development and renewal.

The economic and political aspects of energy subsidies, viewed both theoretically and empirically, with a focus on fossil fuel subsidies in developing nations.

Working Guide to Drilling Equipment and Operations offers a practical guide to drilling technologies and procedures.

This book describes and analyses the diversity of possible approaches and policy pathways to implement sustainable groundwater development, based on a comparative analysis of numerous quantitative management case studies from France and Australia.

To meet human energy needs, the use of fossil fuels is set to continue well into the second half of the 21st century.

The untold story of how Exxon, Mobil, Chevron, and Texaco teamed up with the CIA and Department of State to thwart the plans of Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, who almost managed to reshape the Middle East.

Understanding that the natural world beneath our feet is the point at which civilization meets the natural world is critical to the success of restoration and prevention efforts to reduce contaminant impacts and improve the global environment because of one simple fact - contaminants do not respect country borders.

This book focuses on participation of the public and private sectors in urban water management and on the role of water pricing.

This edited volume provides a multisectoral, multidisciplinary analysis of the circular economy in Turkey.

This book aims to explore the groundbreaking intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and agriculture, focusing on how innovative technologies can be harnessed to create sustainable and resilient food systems.

Climate change has never been more important than it is now, as it has become arguably the world's most urgent problem.

Agile Energy Systems: Global Distributed On-Site and Central Grid Power, Second Edition, offers new solutions to the structure of electricity provision made possible by new energy technologies.

Energy Resources: Examining the Facts provides an authoritative, comprehensive overview of economic, political, and environmental drivers of America's energy picture, from trends in the production and consumption of fossil fuels and renewables to the state of the national energy grid.

Containing the state-of-the-art in hydrodynamic cavitation, the book consists of two parts.

La economía minera es muy amplia: abarca los orígenes y características de los minerales, el impacto de la minería en el desarrollo económico, los procesos mineros y metalúrgicos, la estimación de costos, los mercados y la comercialización de minerales, así como la optimización de proyectos, financiamiento, medio ambiente y política minera.

In the natural gas industry, competition and contracting are gradually replacing monopoly and regulation.

The undamming and restoration of rivers is a major component of our broader environmental movement.

The Impact of Soviet Shipping (1987) is a detailed analysis of the operations and impact of Soviet shipping.

Power for the People examines the tension between the social and political interests of states and the market in the case of energy policy.

Developing the Global Bioeconomy: Technical, Market, and Environmental Lessons from Bioenergy brings together expertise from three IEA-Bioenergy subtasks on pyrolysis, international trade, and biorefineries to review the bioenergy sector and draw useful lessons for the full deployment of the bioeconomy.

Crises in Oil, Gas and Petrochemical Industries: Loss Prevention and Disaster Management, Volume Two provides an overview of both natural and manmade disasters occurring in oil, gas and petrochemical industries and prepares special solutions based on their types.

Climate change not only involves rising temperatures but it can also alter the hydro-meteorological parameters of a region and the corresponding changes emerging in the various biotic or abiotic environmental features.

This book addresses a question of importance for both theory and practice: Why are joint venture agreements preferred over other types of agreements such as concession agreements, service contracts, and production sharing agreements in the Qatari gas industry?

Introducing the physical principles of rock physics, this upper-level textbook includes problem sets, focus boxes and MATLAB exercises.

Many standard industrial waste treatment texts sufficiently address a few major technologies for conventional in-plant environmental control strategies in the food industry.

FROM THE PREFACEWastewater collection systems are dynamic, not static.

This new edition of the best-selling book describes the main types of fishways and fish facilities used around the world to assist the passage of fish over dams and other obstructions to their migration.

There are approximately 50,000 small water supplies in the UK alone, and thousands more worldwide.

Pressurized Heavy Water Reactors: Atucha-II, the eighth volume in the JSME Series on Thermal and Nuclear Power Generation, provides a comprehensive and complete review of a single type of reactor in a very accessible and practical way.

This book focuses on China's efforts to address climate change on both the strategic and practical levels since the Katowice Climate Change Conference.

This book defines oil price as a social institution that exists beyond supply-demand mechanisms.

This book addresses the needs of researchers on the fundamental level as well as those with more advanced knowledge of microgrids and their evolution.

Step-by-step procedures for planning, design, construction and operation:* Health and environment* Process improvements* Stormwater and combined sewer control and treatment* Effluent disposal and reuse* Biosolids disposal and reuse* On-site treatment and disposal of small flows* Wastewater treatment plants should be designed so that the effluent standards and reuse objectives, and biosolids regulations can be met with reasonable ease and cost.

Water control is essential to Japan, as more than half of its invested capital is concentrated in elevations under sea level and the majority of the island nation is exceptionally vulnerable to flooding.

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters.

This book publishes some papers presented at the 4th International Conference on Water Energy Food and Sustainability (ICoWEFS 2024), a major forum to foster innovation and exchange knowledge in the water-energy-food nexus.

Nitrogen rich wastewaters (10-400 mg N L-1) are usually produced by municipal, industrial and agricultural wastes, such as effluents from anaerobic treatments.

Advances and Technology Development in Greenhouse Gases: Emission, Capture and Conversion is a comprehensive seven-volume set of books that discusses the composition and properties of greenhouse gases, and introduces different sources of greenhouse gases emission and the relation between greenhouse gases and global warming.